AP: Taiwan opposition leader, China’s Hu meet

Taiwan’s opposition leader met with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday, capping a historic reconciliation between his party and mainland communists whose civil war split China in 1949.

In a ceremony televised live in both China and Taiwan, the two men shook hands in the Great Hall of the People, the seat of China’s legislature in central Beijing, and expressed hopes of ending decades of hostility.